Project #2 El Tablón

The tiny village of El Tablón is set just outside the city limits of Esquipulas, Guatemala- nestled a kilometer behind the major highway to Honduras. Their one primary school housed 26 students in six grade levels and was in even more desperate condition than was Llano de San Gaspar before Liters arrived. It only had three walls, a mud floor, and a very leaky roof. The few materials they started the year with had long since been ruined. We worked closely with the municipality and the local community in the construction of the new building, which proudly boasts two classrooms AND an indoor atrium so the children can safely grow their own fruits and vegetables-not only a vital skill, but a way to alleviate malnutrition and hunger. The walls of this school are built entirely of eco-bricks (plastic bottles filled with inorganic trash) and have removed more than 5,000 plastic bottles and nearly 3,000lbs. of trash from our local neighborhoods!